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Dear Colleagues,
**Apologies for cross-posting**
Please find below details on The Disability Research Centre event,
Goldsmiths University of London being held on Tuesday 5 May. Please do pass
this on to your colleagues and networks.
Kind regards,
Marian
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Tactile Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Disability in the 1930s
The Disability Research Centre is hosting a talk by Dr David Serlin,
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of California,
San Diego
Beginning in the eighteenth century, tactile pedagogy for the visually
impaired - in the form of Braille texts as well as tactile objects and maps
- was cultivated as a mode for producing new educational horizons as well as
new social and political subjectivities. This lecture will explore the role
of what I will call "tactile modernism" as engaged by projects of the Works
Progress Administration (1935-1943) under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
I argue that tactile objects produced by the WPA for blind citizens
specifically championed the educational and social needs of disabled
children, many of whom attended state-sponsored institutions, as well as the
economic and social needs of disabled workers. I argue that these tactile
objects demonstrate that the subjective experiences of people with
disabilities were more ontologically central to many of the New Deal's
projects, and to early-twentieth-century modernism, than historical accounts
ultimately concede.
Date: Tuesday 5 May 2015
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Place: 326, Professor Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths University of London,
New Cross London SE14 6NW
Department: Sociology
Cost: Free
For further information: http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=8576
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